Monthly Archives: September 2015

The HeART Beat Anniversary Indoor Street Party is set to kick off the 2015/16 theatre season with a Boom! Catalyst Theatre (20 years) and Rapid Fire Theatre (35 years) have joined forces with the Citadel (50 years) to celebrate a milestone year in the Edmonton theatre scene. Join us Saturday, September 26th on Alberta Culture Days weekend for live theatre performances, and an epic indoor street party celebration right in the heART of downtown Edmonton. This FREE EVENT will feature live music, dancing, food trucks and more!

HUG THE CITADEL – 7:30PM (Free Event)

Join the Edmonton theatre community as we show our support for live theatre by forming a human chain around the Citadel Theatre to kick off the evening! There will be free swag and a chance to win tickets to Citadel shows!

ANNIVERSARY INDOOR STREET PARTY – 9:30PM (FREE PARTY!)

Citadel Pavilion Area

HeART Beat Indoor Street Party in Citadel Pavillion

Join us for a FREE party as we celebrate Catalyst, Rapidfire, and Citadel Theatre anniversary milestones!

Every variety showcase is a little bit different, featuring some of the best in Edmonton’s music, dance, film and performing arts. These events are all about coming together in community to support and enjoy local talents. Audience to stage. It’s a casual affair with friends, new friends, drinks, music and quality live entertainment.

Featuring:

BANDS/DJ
Nadir Bellahmer
We Were Friends
Kys The Sky
Better Living DJs

FILM
HUSH trailer
Ice Guardian and Chasing Evel: The Life of Robbie Knievel trailers

Alright all you mid week irresponsible drinkers, it is industry night at Denizen Hall! Giving awayw $1 draft, $3.75 hi balls, $3.75 jack fire shots, the house band the #BarcadeFire, and free video games! Get your butt down there tonight, it’s the mid-weekend!

The final What the Truck?! Edmonton event of the season is almost upon us, and we’re closing out the year where we started – Churchill Square.

After the crowds we saw in May, we decided that it would be only fitting to expand our road closure and make this our largest event to date – 35 trucks will be on hand to serve up delicious dinners for everyone!

Join us on Thursday, September 3rd for our second year of the much anticipated Dîner en Blanc – Edmonton organized & hosted by The Social Concierge.

Dîner en Blanc combines a beautiful outdoor venue with the sophistication of a gourmet picnic.

On the evening of the event, guests gather at specific departure points around the city. Guided by Dîner en Blanc volunteers, these groups will then converge on the secret location travelling on foot and by coach. Every guest brings their own table, chairs and table setting.

Highlights of the evening include the waving of a cloth napkin to mark the beginning of the dinner, the lighting of the sparklers, trumpets sounding and a disco after the event.

Launched in Paris in 1988 by François Pasquier, Dîner en Blanc has become a worldwide phenomenon celebrated on five continents. Dîner en Blanc – Paris now attracts nearly 15,000 people each year. While the technology behind the event may have changed over the years, the principles fuelling this fantastic event have not: guests continue to gather at a secret location for the sole purpose of sharing a gourmet meal with good friends in one of their city’s most beautiful public spaces. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, Dîner en Blanc International is responsible for developing this secret posh picnic in over 50 cities in more than 20 countries around the world. Each event is headed by passionate local organizers who fell in love with the concept and wanted to bring it to their city, giving this rendezvous a local flair.

Tonight we got down and nerdy as we participtaed in LEGO building & speed building comps (care of our friends from AIMBOT), found out what type of squirrel personalities we had (thanks to the team from the Kluane Red Squirrel Project), learned about the history of beer & how to make our own brew (with the help of Yukon Brewing and the Edmonton Homebrewers Guild), took a crash course in geology with Shawna and Janina, PhD students from the UofA, got some tips on how best to predict and then chase a severe storm (thanks to the Alberta Storm Chasers), launched rockets, explored TWOSE’s most overlooked exhibits and laid eyes on Sophie – TWOSE’s beloved, but retired Zeiss Star projector AND even enjoyed THREE very special Nerd Nite Edmonton presentations… all in one night!

Big thank you to everyone who came out tonight and unleashed their inner nerds with us! We hope to see everyone again on Thursday, October 15, when we celebrate all things…. ROCK and ROLL =)